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Howto recursively create PDF thumnbails on linux command line

I am able to use ImageMagick to create a thumbnail of the first page of a PDF using: convert -thumbnail x80 95.pdf[0] thumb_95.png This works fine and generates a thumb_95.png file. I have tried ...
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How can I convert a PNG to a PDF in high quality so it's not blurry or fuzzy?

There are a lot of questions out there about how to convert a PDF file to a PNG image, but I'm looking to take a nice sharp PNG file and just basically wrap it or embed it in a PDF file without having ...
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Running two animations side-by-side using ImageMagick

I have two animations (.gif files) I want to run side-by-side. Can this be done with ImageMagick? Moreover, I want to start one of the gifs after thirty frames of the other have passed. Can this be ...
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Using Image Magick Convert to Change Channel Depth?

I want to change an image depth of bitmap for testing purposes. Right now I am trying to get a 2 bit palette image, and a 4444 Hicolor image. I have a true color bitmap. I used the below command ...
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Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format

I want to convert some files from jpeg to pdf. I am using following command. $ convert image1.jpg image1.pdf But I have 100 images. How should I convert all of them to corresponding pdfs? I ...
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Resizing and croping images to an aspect ratio of 6x4 with width of 1024 pixels

I have a mixed set of images, each one has a slightly different resolution with a slightly different aspect ratio from other images. I have tried using commands like convert -resize and convert ...
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pdf to jpg without quality loss; gscan2pdf

When I convert a pdf file to bunch of jpg files using convert -quality 100 file.pdf page_%04d.jpg I have appreciable quality loss. However if I do the following, there is no (noticeable) quality ...
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Oneliner for slicing an image?

I'm looking for a oneliner command that would slice an image into given proportions. Say input would be filename and slice dimensions. Are there any standard command-line tools for this? I tried ...